Top stories from 17 March update:

Trade/WTO:

• SPECIAL REPORT: Withstanding pressures for a new round, a major challenge for the South
• Pitfalls in plurilateral path on investment talks
• Avoid being paralysed by status quo, says Ricupero
• Second compliance panel set on Brazil aircraft subsidy
• More losers than winners from WTO's 'free trade'
• Moore trying to build momentum for new round
• GATT/WTO inactions have contributed to BSE spread
• Integrate trade negotiations and supply capacity
• General Council special sessions to continue focus on implementation
• Regional vs multilateral at WTO General Council
• Doha ministerial meet set for 9-13 November
• Statement: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement [version francais]
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Biotechnology

• UK government to establish population DNA database: For whose benefit?
• UK Medical Research Council acknowledges GM food risks: Human studies proposed
• The Cartagena Protocol on biosafety: Implications for research and development - A Third World perspective
• Elements of precaution: Recommendations for the regulation of food biotechnology in Canada
• MEPs opening door to lifting GM moratorium?
• Advances in human genome research could widen North-South gap
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• 2,000 women protest against GM food, blockade supermarket in Brazil
• new frontiers (Jan-Feb 2001) [MS-Word, 135kb]
• Dangerous jabs - The MMR scare
• Global warming: Net losses for developing world
• South Pacific: Rising sea levels already hurting islands
• Policy prescriptions for developing world need changes
• Campaign on disclosure of overseas corporate activities
• The right not to be poor
• Pressure mounts for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs
• Generic drug-makers brace for battle with pharmaceuticals
• Global warming to hurt Australian agriculture
• Canada has buried the FTAA, charges Brazilian minister